Genèse et épiphanie du sens dans l'oeuvre d'Edith Stein
(2012)
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- Dupuis, Michel
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- (en) Genesis and epiphany of the meaning in Edith Stein’s works. The coherence of Stein’s works is problematical. The classical approach of the work which raises the issue that the quest for truth and the quest for the meaning in the life and works of Edith Stein, certainly identify the quest as the thread of the works; however, it confronts us to three successive moments (be it phenomenological, anthropological and mystical) which arise as three qualitative labels affixed to parts of the Stein corpus corresponding to particular periods of her life. Thus, we do not pay any attention, in this juxtaposition of time, to the nature and logic of their articulation within the works when viewed as a whole. We shall illuminate this linear reading of Stein’s corpus, proving to be insufficient and likely to jeopardize the unity of the works, via a comprehensive reading, which, considering that Stein’s writings are an expression of a self-understanding experience and a mutual integration of speech and religious experience, shall allow a reflection that shows from the thought itself, wherein and how the three "moments" are the display terms of the meaning in the thought, and the thought through the meaning which crosses it throughout. Tracing the meaning to the work in the work itself shows how Stein’s work is formed and transformed in accordance with the logic of the meaning advent. The reference to Christ leads to identify three areas of the meaning: the truth, the image, and the love which require a specific ethos to the quest in order to attune it with the meaning perceived at the time of each donation: the attention, the knowledge, and the worship. The christophany dynamics given to the works in Stein’s thinking hold the later from one place to the other, until it reaches the out of place that is the invisible visibility of the founding Otherness. The upward spiral it describes, and which corresponds to the gradual emergence of the meaning in the mind, translates thus the crisis of the reason which is grasped in the paradoxical coincidence of the advanced interiority of the thought with the painful process, but oh how joyful, of its decreation.
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Abi-Aad, R. (2012). Genèse et épiphanie du sens dans l’oeuvre d’Edith Stein. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/244013